Insanity's Monster - The build begins

[danielbriggs]

One day (i hope) Pangolin / Mamba will run from linux Ubuntu or Fedora.... until then ....we are stuck with the lovely Microsoft eh!

k

You could give Wine a whirl... http://www.winehq.org/
May be a bit fussy with drivers...

[Insanity]

Here are a couple of beam shots taken tonight... These were taken with no smoke other than a cigarette, so they're not that great...

[White-Light]

It's running Windows Vista. The hard drive Toshiba installed in the laptop 3 months ago was a dud, full of bad sectors.
Mark

Ahh that explains it. Vista generally is more stable than XP which is why Windows 7 is just a tweeked version of Vista - a bottle neck fixed and customer requests listened to along with a little optimisation.

Here are a couple of beam shots taken tonight... These were taken with no smoke other than a cigarette, so they're not that great...

Wow! I think most people would be happy to achieve beams like that in a fully smoked room. just goes to show the power of those lasers mark (either that or you have a very dusty house! )

[allthatwhichis]

What controller are you using? And if it is Pango; are you using a fourth color channel for the 445 blue?

[carlos3621]

very nice color palette, and nicely blended beams too!! all you need now is the 660 red and 577 yellow, and youll be crowned the king of colors..

[sbk]

Really, really nice colors... Especially the magenta!!!

Next time you switch on your projector, could you take a picture of the same scanned image, one time with 445 and one time with 473? I'd love to see the difference when scanned

Edit : I just re-viewed the second last picture again, and I assume the clearer blue inside is only 473, and the other is only 445, not? So if yes, this picture do the job

[FourDee]

The red looks very weak on the photos, but I guess this will be resolved with your second one

[Insanity]

What controller are you using? And if it is Pango; are you using a fourth color channel for the 445 blue?

Hey Aaron, it is running on a QM2000 Intro with a few a'la carte features. And yes, I have the 473 on the blue channel and the 445 on the deep blue channel. I noticed when configuring the pallete that it always adds 473 into the mix, but you need to run the 473 at over half power to actually make a difference to the 445 line.

Really, really nice colors... Especially the magenta!!!

Next time you switch on your projector, could you take a picture of the same scanned image, one time with 445 and one time with 473? I'd love to see the difference when scanned

Edit : I just re-viewed the second last picture again, and I assume the clearer blue inside is only 473, and the other is only 445, not? So if yes, this picture do the job

I only have a Panasonic TZ camera, so nothing too clever. It does struggle to capture the deep blues and violets very well. The picture you mentioned in reallity is a fairly deep violet with sky blue segments, but the camera just can't replicate it. Tonight I will run a new pallete and show you the two lines independantly, if the camera can capture it of course.

The other thing I noticed is this: I use Live Pro (as I'm sure you all know by now), but Live Pro only allows adjustment of 3 colour channels in its colour cycles. Maybe if I talk to Bill nicely, he might be able to add control of the other channels available in LD.

The red looks very weak on the photos, but I guess this will be resolved with your second one

The projector is fully balanced, I spent hours manually tuning the colour pallete to get all lines equal. I think the red looks weak in some pics due to lack of smoke. If you look at the 9th pic, you will see that the red is as bright as the other lines. Having said that, I had to turn the blue and green down to achieve that pallete. So the new red will allow me to crank the power back up on the green and blue lines again...

Cheers
Mark

[Pitts]

Hey Mark well done looks very nice.
I am intrigued re the cube as I had Bridge look at the specs for mine and it didn't look like it would go at all.
I ended up going the Semrock dichro way. The bank balance is starting to recover, its got to be one of the most expensive bits of 25mm glass around.
Should have my next one up and running in the next week.
Like you also using 473-250mw(had it to hand CNI), 445 - 500mw (Arctos), 640 - 1200mw (Kvant), 532 - 600mw(CNI). If it comes out anything like yours I will be well pleased. Might have to re connect my "660" just to stay up with the Jones's..

Great DVD by the way.. just got to get time to study it more now.

Cheers

Ray
NZ
NZ

[hobbybob]

Wow that's really impressive. Very colorful and sharp beams.
I am drooling behind the keyboard here ;-)